DC Taxi Zones
November 07, 2006 ( life )
One of the most confusing parts of DC is dealing with the Taxi Zone system; as the one map that seems to be available is grainy and poorly made, only showing the "zone boundaries" and not landmarks, non-boundary streets, or things like that. It feels like an attempt to maintain an information advantage over the consumers (especially the tourists) and extract that extra fare from dropping you off on the side of the street that's the next zone out and sillyness like that.
If you know how to work and abuse the zone system, walking that extra 1/2-block on either side of your journey can save you a sawbuck. To help with this, I've plonked the grainy, fuzzy map of the DC Taxi Zones on top of Google Earth, so you can actually see where things are.
DCTaxiZones.kmz (1.6MB, requires Google Earth)
Posted by griffjon at November 7, 2006 10:57 AM
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